[hardy beta] removing mozilla-firefox-locale-en-gb breaks -en lang support

[Christer Edwards]

Binary package hint: mozilla-firefox-locale-en-gb

I was trying to clean out all things firefox and reduce the package footprint on my machine (4G total HDD in EeePC). Removing mozilla-firefox-locale-en-gb appears to break a number of things, and requires the installation of thunderbird?? See below.

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu hardy (development branch)"

2.6.24-12-generic

mozilla-firefox-locale-en-gb:
  Installed: 2.0.0.7+1-0ubuntu3
  Candidate: 2.0.0.7+1-0ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 2.0.0.7+1-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

christer@007:~$ sudo aptitude remove mozilla-firefox-locale-en-gb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
  language-support-translations-en
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  mozilla-firefox-locale-en-gb
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 758kB will be freed.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  language-support-translations-en: Depends: mozilla-firefox-locale-en-gb but it is not installable
Resolving dependencies...
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Remove the following packages:
language-pack-en
language-pack-en-base
language-pack-gnome-en
language-pack-gnome-en-base
language-support-en
language-support-translations-en

Install the following packages:
thunderbird [2.0.0.12+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 (hardy)]

Score is -265

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] q
Abandoning all efforts to resolve these dependencies.
Abort.

[Jamie Lokier (jamie-shareable)]

After an upgrade to Hardy from Gutsy, most things were fine. There's a weird "You have logged in in a new language" dialog, whose meaning is rather unclear.

When I then visited the System -> Administration -> Language Support, it told me not all the modules for my language were installed properly. It needed the Firefox module for English (United Kingdom), called mozilla-firefox-locale-en-gb.

So I said "ok" and it installed Firefox 2!!!! (Default Firefox is 3 in Hardy).